Internships

AFH 447: Readings in Africana Studies

Individually supervised reading in selected topics in the Black Experience, carried out under the direct supervision of a faculty member. May be repeated once.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program director. 1-3 credits

​AFH 475: Undergraduate Teaching Practicum I

Work with a faculty member as an assistant in one of the faculty member's regularly scheduled classes. The student is required to attend all the classes, do all the regularly assigned work, and meet with the faculty member at regularly scheduled times to discuss the intellectual and pedagogical matters relating to the course. Students may not serve as teaching assistants in the same course twice. Not for major or minor credit.

Prerequisites: Africana studies major or minor; U4 standing; permission of instructor. 3 credits, S/U grading

​AFH 476: Undergraduate Teaching Practicum II

Work with a faculty member as an assistant in one of the faculty member's regularly scheduled classes. The student is required to attend all the classes, do all the regularly assigned work, and meet with the faculty member at regularly scheduled times to discuss the intellectual and pedagogical matters relating to the course. Students assume greater responsibility in such areas as leading discussions and analyzing results of tests that have already been graded. Students may not serve as teaching assistants in the same course twice. Not for major or minor credit.

Prerequisites: AFS 475; permission of instructor. 3 credits, S/U grading

​AFH 487: Research in Africana Studies

Individual research projects in the Black Experience carried out under the direct supervision of a faculty member. May be repeated to a limit of 6 credits.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and program director. 0-3 credits

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Events:

Scholarship Awards; Bliss Verdon and Richard B. Moore May 25, 2011, SBS S-244

Commencement and Convocation; May 25, 2011, SBS S-244

News:

Congratulations to the first graduates for the Graduate Certificate in Africana Studies

Congratulations to Dr. Dawn P. Harris on her Appointment to full time faculty

Congratulations to Dr. Dawn Harris on the award for a Presidential Mini Grant

We welcome a new Visiting Assistant Professor for Fall 2011 Dr. Zebulon Miletsky